I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

Don't fear whatever God lays before you today.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished.

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.